Real estate investing made easy. If you want a simpler way to invest in real estate than owning rental properties or flipping houses, investors should look to real estate investment trusts , or REITs. ...

ETFs can also offer big yields. We’ll look at 11 of them today, with dividends starting at 4% and climbing all the way up to an amazing 21%! Is the 21%er a trap? Of course it is. So read on to keep yourself safe from these "wealth traps".

If you hold any of these five risky REITs, you should sell them immediately. And put that money into two recession-proof bargains (paying up to 8%) that we’ll discuss shortly. REITs aren’t always as safe as their dividends appear on paper. Consider ...

Analysts expect the mortgage real estate investment trust to deliver earnings per share of 30 cents, one cent higher than a year earlier. In the last seven days, one out of the five analysts covering NLY stock upped their estimate for the quarter, so things are looking up for Annaly heading into earnings. On July 18, its shares dropped 4% on the news it was planning to sell 60 million common shares and possibly another nine million shares for the underwriters over-allotment, representing a 6.8% increase in the number of shares outstanding.